“If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potentia...” — S. Jay Olshansky Quote

“If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.”

“The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.”

“In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.”

“Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.”

“I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.”

“I was limping through the streets of Auckland. I had a fall at three in the morning. I knew in my heart of hearts, being a trained doctor, that I had one of the big three: Parkinsons, motor neurone disease or multiple sclerosis. And I knew Parkinsons was the likely one.”